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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - 2009
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating a tendency for the voting process to … lead to suboptimal institutional choice. -- voting ; punishment ; voluntary contributions ; heterogeneity ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882556
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The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Beekman, Goone; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - 2015
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318400
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The effect of conflict history on cooperation within and between groups : evidence from a laboratory experiment
Beekman, Gonne; Cheung, Stephen L.; Levely, Ian - 2014
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different group, or (iii) not previously exposed to conflict. We model conflict using an inter-group Tullock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379230
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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013
Previous research has shown that opportunities for two-sided partner choice in finitely repeated social dilemma games can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by selfish players causing an end-game decline. How such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126752
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles N. - 2013
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating tendency for the voting process to lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012710692
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Governing collective action in the face of observational error
Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Wang, Liangjun - 2017
We present results from a repeated public goods experiment where subjects choose by vote one of two sanctioning schemes: peer-to-peer (informal) or centralized (formal). We introduce, in some treatments, a moderate amount of noise (a 10 percent probability that a contribution is reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058652
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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?
Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005
Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions and reduces the free rider problem; however, a substantial amount of punishment is targeted on high contributors. In the experiment reported here, subjects are given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318915
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548053
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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods
Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399681
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Puttermann, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344858